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Chapter 18 - Further Below Strod

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Party members: Angus, Dandelion, Galan, Hyde, Kablamicus, Yenny

And so the party rises on the last morning of Culling. The spellcasters prepare their powers for the day, and they return to the orc stronghold. Sophomore squawks with trepidation given his recent experience, but stays with his mage friend. Angus lights the oil remaining in his lamp to illuminate the way, and they are below the surface again.

Determined to explore further into the depths of this foul place, they enter carefully. They shield themselves from the living stalactites using the now dilapidated table, walk cautiously through the room with chained skeletons, through the room with bloodstains, and finally to the stairs leading down. There are some awkward moments as various party members bump into the invisible gnomes in the group, but here they are.

Angus checks for tracks periodically rolls dice, but is unable to detect any recent movements.

If the party wishes to make any additional preparations, or go somewhere else, now is the time to do it.

Map of current floor. The party is just near the stairs:

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Date: 31 Culling, Year 44
Time: 9:40
Conditions: 44F, damp
Known Spells in Effect: Yenny, Galan invisible
Light bearers: Yenny's bracelet, Angus' bullseye lantern through 11:45
Injuries: None

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Good for me (and Yenny)

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Dandelion follows in line.
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"Awright," drawls Angus. "Best decide now: we gonna try to sneak past this wizard feller, or not? I reckon we ought to go straight to him. Might could be he's willing to talk, and I ain't keen on having a cranky wizard at our backs."

Any further preparations we should make? Should our invisible scouts try to see what's there?

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A voice from nowhere... "I could make us real quiet while we scout. I just pray and our sounds disappear. Otherwise, I'm a bit of an invisible tin can."

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He knows we be hyah, you can bet, Hyde offers his 2 coppers, his bow at the fore, He'll try to have us kilt, or at least wear us down, before he confronts us, yeahh. He turns to where he heard Yenny's voice. Can ya make us quiet when we be fightin' this Wizard, hah? He might have a problem usin' his magics on us that way.

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"Better yet, make the wizard be quiet," suggests Angus.

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 « If I’m quiet, and I walk up to him, he’ll be quiet. »

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Kablambicus

Listening to their strategies on fighting wizards, KR tugs at the collar of his robe uncomfortably. He makes a mental note of possibilities and hopes to devise some strategies and safeguards of his own.

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The party suggests several options, but in the end decide to descend the stairs carefully. They are steep and roughly hewn, descending nearly 20' over just as much distance. It is dark down here, and the party's light sources are the only thing illuminating the dull grey stone hallway, which is about 8' high.

At the bottom of the stairs, the corridor continues 30' before turning right. Another corridor heads immediately right from the foot of the stairs, ending in a shut wooden door.
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Date: 31 Culling, Year 44
Time: 9:45
Conditions: 44F, damp
Known Spells in Effect: Yenny, Galan invisible
Light bearers: Yenny's bracelet, Angus' bullseye lantern through 11:45
Injuries: None

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Yenny whispers to Galan, "I'll go check around the corner if you want to listen at the door." She has her invisible flail ready to flail.
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Angus waits for the scouts to scout.

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Hyde doesn't move until Angus moves.

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Dandelion waits for the scouting.
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Galan presses his ear up to the door (or at least the party thinks he does), as invisible Yenny clanks on to see what lies beyond the corner.

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The robed gnome hears nothing after pressing his ear to the door. After only a minute, Yenny clanks back around the corner, reporting that the corridor ends with another closed wooden door on the left side of the passage.

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Date: 31 Culling, Year 44
Time: 9:50
Conditions: 44F, damp
Known Spells in Effect: Yenny, Galan invisible
Light bearers: Yenny's bracelet, Angus' bullseye lantern through 11:45
Injuries: None

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Yenny's voice comes from near the door. "Should we open this door or head down the hall? It ends in a door about 30 feet around the corner."

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"I got me a whimsical notion to knock on the door down the hall," says Angus. "Just to see if that wizard feller will make nice. Or act like it, anyhow."

"Probably not a great plan, though."

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Neglected to paste this to my earlier post.

As Angus awaits Yenny's return, he examines the floor carefully with his lantern. In contrast to the dusty floor upstairs, the path between the two doors sees much more traffic.

DM rolls dice

It's impossible to make out individual prints, but the ranger concludes from the entire picture that orc-sized footprints have trod in both directions within the last 12-24 hours.

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Angus points out the signs of recent orc traffic. "Huh. I guess that wizard feller ain't as much of a hermit as that orc let on. Let's go pay him a visit. Do one of y'all want to check the door for traps and such first?"

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Yenny "We could do that. I'll get ready to silence us after we knock and start talking--if things get ugly."

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